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Friday, October 17, 2008

Audio Damage's Automaton

Automaton is a VST / AU for stuttering and altering your music inside your DAW of choice. It's $49, and you can check out some examples of how it works on the Audio Damage website, or watch videos of it in action, such as these two from youtube:

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Stylophone VST

The Stylophone has recently been recreated for the Ipod Touch (via CDM) but you can also get some free Stylophone VSTs such as these:

de la Mancha Styrofoam

Sparque Stylophone, and there is help here about installing it.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Roland Emulators

Rebirth - 303, 808, 909
AudioRealism Bassline - 303
AudioRealism DrumMachine - 606, 808, 909
Tau Bassline MkII - 303
Arturia Jupiter-8V - Jupiter-8
TAL-BassLine - SH-101
TAL-U-No-62 - Juno 60
mini DrumZ - CR-78, 606, 727, 808, 909 (plus some Korg stuff too)
Superwave p8 - JP8000

Most of these are free or have free alternatives.

DSK free VSTi's

I've mentioned them before but DSK have heaps of really great VST's. They even make specialist VSTi's, like this one for Asian instruments, and this one for Indian instruments.
There's another called Darkness Theory that sounds good, it's for making ambient music. But they've got everything from guitars and drums to a heap of different synths. They are all free too so well worth checking out.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Free plugins from Audio Damage

Rough Rider is a free vintage compressor, and FuzzPlus is a free vintage fuzz pedal.

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Ugo Free VSTs

Ugo have a few free VSTs (there's also some you can buy), but I really like the sound of String Theory (top pic) and Texture (bottom pic). There's some audio demos on the site so you can hear what's possible.

Friday, August 8, 2008

Prophanity: Free Prophet 5 clone

The Prophanity is a free VST clone of the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5. If you'd prefer to buy something though there is always Native Instruments' Pro-53.

EMS Synthi A clone: EFM-Synthia 2

If you have heard 'On The Run' by Pink Floyd then you will have heard the EMS Synthi (top pic). Well EFM have made the EFM-Synthia 2 (bottom pic) which is a free VST (PC only) clone.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

LFX-1310

This VST Effect was voted Best of 2004 by members of KVR. It's actually quite good, and works with Windows and OS X.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Weird instrument VST's

Safwan Matni VST Plugins specialises in obscure instruments, like the Oud.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Free Stuff

VST(i) / AU
mda-vst.com has vst and au's
Kammerl Audio a pack of five effects for Windows and OS X
Antress Modern Plugins Windows only racks
Free VST's from Andreas Ersson
DSK Music make heaps of free VST's

Lists
Free VST(i) list from electrobel - HUGE list
Free Samples from IDMForums - HUGE, but you must be registered to see links
Free VST - Old dead site
Free Music Software - The new home of Free VST, also has software and samples
Free Plug-in List - Reasonably good site
Best VST Plugins - links to download some vst's

Everything
Dont Crack has heaps of freeware for Windows and OS X
Studio Toolz has heaps of Mac freeware

Misc.
KVR Audio is great for information on everything audio
Rekkerd Audio Software news
This Is Not A Label videos and links to interesting stuff

I will update this when I remember more links.

Make Noise With Reception

Reception is a VST for destroying your audio. It's by Psychic Modulation who have a few other (mostly free) goodies at their site, take a look at the synths.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Make Music With Linux (mostly for free)

Linux is a whole different OS to Windows and OSX. You can download Ubuntu Studio (or any other Linux OS) for free and you probably should install the OS on a separate partion on your hard drive, that way you can keep your current OS.

So now you need some apps. The good news is that there are those that will easily replace your old Windows/OSX programs, and there are some which are also on Windows and OSX as well. For example if you use Audacity or Renoise (€49) then you are in luck because you can get Linux versions of those.

Then if you like Pro Tools you might be interested in Ardour, which some say is better than Pro Tools.

energyXT2 is probably one of the most impressive looking DAWs around, unfortunately it costs money (€19-49 depending on the version you choose) but it's still cheap, and it runs on Windows and OSX as well which is handy if you ever want to switch back.

There is ZynAddSubFX, which is an impressive looking synth.

For drum machine needs there is Hydrogen.

And there is also Rosegarden for MIDI work.

Of course there are heaps more (there's a list here) but these seem to be among the best. Unfortunately there does seem to be a bit of a problem with running VST's on Linux thatnks to Steinberg which I don't fully understand how to fix.
But there is a bit of information about using VST's here(you can also find out VST compatibility info here). Unfortunately in my search for more information that made some form of sense, I mostly found outdated info, though there is this informative article.